For ten years his admirer had been labouring to emulate his astonishingly meticulous chains and cascades of foliage, fruit, flowers, feathers and shells in the same white lime or linden wood.
If I say " he's a wannabe" , what I mean is he's an admirer or a fan; somebody who wants to emulate a celebrity by copying that celebrity's dress or behavior or something like this.
The story begins with her falling in love with Kit, a James Dean wannabee who takes her on an adventure that eventually becomes a killing spree and ends with both of them arrested.
They connect you directly to one of the most prolific force multipliers of all time, Benjamin Franklin, a French admirer called Franklin, the Archimedes of his country.
He was a strong and gifted athlete, charming, smart, and immensely good-looking, handsome almost to a fault, in the description of William H. Cropper, an Adonis in the words of another admirer.